xii, 431 p. ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Pragmatism, retrospective, and prospective / Joseph Margolis -- Part I: Major figures -- Charles Sanders Peirce / Vincent Colapietro -- William James / Ellen Kappy Suckiel -- F.C.S. Schiller and European pragmatism / John R. Shook -- John Dewey / Philip W. Jackson -- George H. Mead / Gary A. Cook -- Jane Addams / Marilyn Fischer -- Alain Locke / Leonard Harris -- C.I.Lewis / Murray G. Murphey -- W.V. Quine / Roger F. Gibson, Jr. -- Hilary Putnam / Harvey J. Cormier -- Jürgen Habermas / Joseph M. Heath -- Richard Rorty / Kai Nielsen -- Part II: Transforming philosophy -- Not cynicism, but synechism : lessons from Peirce / Susan Haack -- Peirce and cartesian rationalism / Douglas R. Anderson -- James, empiricism, and absolute idealism / Timothy L.S. Sprigge -- Hegel and realism / KennethR. Westphal -- Dewey, dualism, and naturalism / Thomas Alexander -- Expressivism and Mead's social self / Mitchell Aboulafia -- Marxism and critical theory / Paulo Ghiraldelli, Jr. -- Philosophical hermeneutics / David Vessey -- Language, mind, and naturalism in analytic philosophy / Bjørn T. Ramberg -- Feminism / Shannon W. Sullivan -- Pluralism, relativism, and historicism / Joseph Margolis -- Experience as freedom / John J. McDermott -- Part III: Culture and nature -- Pragmatism as anti-authoritarianism / Richard Rorty -- Intelligence and ethics / Hilary Putnam -- Democracy and value inquiry / Ruth Anna Putnam -- Liberal democracy / Robert B. Westbrook -- Pluralism and deliberative democracy / Judith M. Green -- Philosophy as education / Jim Garrison -- Creativity and society / Hans Joas and Erkki Kilpinen -- Religious empiricism and naturalism / Nancy K. Frankenberry -- Aesthetics / Richard M. Shusterman -- Aesthetic experience and the neurobiology of inquiry / Jay Schulkin -- Cognitive science / Mark Johnson -- Inquiry, deliberation, and method / Isaac Leni -- Pragmatic idealism and metaphysical realism / Nicholas Rescher -- Scientific realism, anti-realism, and empiricism / Cheryl J. Misak

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